The speaker of the city council in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung plunged to his death late on Saturday after the mayor lost a highly-charged recall vote, casting a deep pall over what was an already acrimonious campaign.
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, fr...

Kaohsiung citizens have voted overwhelmingly in favour of ousting pro-Beijing Mayor Han Kuo-yu from office, dealing another blow to Kuomintang (KMT) who is under pressure over its stance over ties with Beijing.
The final result of the recall vote s...

China on Friday advised the public to avoid travelling to Australia, citing racial discrimination and violence in connection with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
"There has been an alarming increase recently in acts of racial discrimination and viol...

The Trump administration said on Friday it will let Chinese airlines operate a limited number of flights to the US, backing down from a a threat to ban the flights.
The decision comes one day after China agreed to ease its own anti-coronavirus restr...

China is using the coronavirus as a cover to push territorial claims in the South China Sea through a surge in naval activity meant to intimidate other countries that claim the waters, the commander of US Forces in Japan said on Friday.
There has be...

A leading microbiologist has warned that family doctors risk litigation if they fail to arrange coronavirus tests for patients with symptoms who later become seriously ill with Covid-19.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung of the University of Hong Kong made t...

Executive Councillor and former security minister Regina Ip says it won't be appropriate to have juries for cases under Beijing's new national security law for the SAR – despite previously proposing that all national security trials such be heard b...

The lawmaker representing the health services sector, Joseph Lee, has backed calls for the administration to introduce mandatory screening and ramp up its testing capacity to fight the spread of Covid-19.
Speaking on RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong progr...

Students from over 20 Sha Tin secondary schools have signed a joint petition urging the Education Bureau to revisit its decision on school resumption, saying the Covid-19 outbreak at Lek Yuen Estate is worrying.
After the number of Covid-19 cases i...

North Korea has once again expressed its support for the enactment of national security legislation in Hong Kong, according to the mainland's state-run Xinhua News Agency.
According to the agency, North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Son-gw...

Cui Yongyuan may not be a household name in the West, but the former state media television host has almost 20 million social media followers in China, or about double those tracking the Twitter account of CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the US.Cui was on...

On a roadside in a mixed Bangkok neighbourhood stands a shiny metal box – a “Pantry of Sharing” – where the haves in one of the world’s least equal countries can leave food for the have-nots, the ranks of whom are bulging as the coronavirus...

The global death toll from the coronavirus neared 400,000 on Sunday, with fatalities accelerating in Latin America.Brazil has the world’s third-highest death toll but President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to pull out of the World Health Organisat...

When South Korea’s hit television series The World of the Married wrapped up in May, it should have been an unqualified success.
The drama, which follows a couple’s journey through betrayal, revenge, grief and healing, broke cable television rec...

China’s exports resumed their decline in May, as demand for its products dried up in overseas markets affected by the coronavirus pandemic, new data released on Sunday showed.Shipments fell by 3.3 per cent last month compared to a year earlier, fol...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula on phone, pledging close contact by various means to promptly exchange views on major issues of common con...

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest against the visit of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Jan. 23, 2018.